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THE BEGINNING AND EARLY CAREER

• Born in 1888, St. Louis, Missouri
• Entered Harvard in the year of 1906.
• In 1915, his "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," was releashed.
• In 1917, his first book of poems, "Prufrock and Other Observations", was published

Eliot soon became very popular, as people thought his poetry was unlike what they had ever seen before. In 1919, Eliot published "Poems", which contained the poem "Gerontion.", which was a completely blank-verse, interior monologue. In 1922, Eliot released "The Waste Land," and it soon became a cult hit, as the story was a complex examination of postwar disappointment. Eliot's marriage was failing, at the time of his success, and he started to experience nervous breakdowns.

MANY WORKS

• "Ash Wednesday" (1930)
• "The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism" (1933)
• "After Strange Gods" (1934)
• "Notes Towards the Definition of Culture" and "East Coker" (1940)
• "Four Quartets" (1943)

"The Waste Land" is regarded as Eliot's most important and beautiful poem. In the beginning, "The Waste Land" was a respectful collaboration with Eliot's long time friend and fellow poet, Erza Pound, as Pound helped Eliot make several editing changes. "The Waste Land" is filled with many allusions and is a complicated, but interesting piece to read.

Eliot became a British citizen in 1927, and became the director of the publishing company of Faber & Faber. Eliot separated from his first wife in 1933, and remarried a woman by the name of, Valerie Fletcher in 1956. Eliot had received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Eliot died in London on Janurary 4th, 1965.

T.S. Eliot was remembered by most, as one of the greatest literary figures of the 20th Century. Eliot's dark, deep, thought provoking, but still hopeful, writing style is one of the main reasons why he is one of most influential literary figures of his time.